The family, whose name it preserves, was first mentioned in the register dated 1614, made by Bethlen Gábor and it also played an important role in the history of the administrative region of Csíkszék (Ciuc seat). The locals of Armășeni remember that the Adorján family members were prosperous, fact which is proven by the manor still standing today.

There are two Antos mansions in Reci, the bigger one is the oldest and the more spectacular one. The length of the building is 30 metres, and the width is 10 metres.

The first castle from Ibașfalău (the old name of the locality) was built by Apaffi Gergely at the beginning of the 16th century, after he obtained the Bethlen family’s lands. This locality became the centre of the Apaffi family’s activities who, during this period, were getting wealthy.

The old mansion was built in the late 16th century and at the beginning of the 17th century, presumably due to the order of Miklós Apafi or his son, György Apafi (royal councilor).

The former hunting castle of Apafi Mihály, the Prince of Transylvania (so-called ”Apafi Castle”) became the headquarter of the mine office (salt chamber). The first construction phase of the three-storey building, originally from 1689, is retained only in small details, its current form being the result of subsequent alterations. Today, the castle operates as a school.

The castle which is situated in this locality today was built based on an one-story rectangular house plan and it has a hip roof covered with tile. The Gyulaffy castle was reconstructed in the 19th century; this is how this building was created. The Apor family rebuilt the house in Classicist and Empire style.

The castle was built in 1629 on the place of the old manor-house that had become uninhabitable when Mihály voivode marched in. The manor-house consisting of three rooms that have basements as well, a kitchen and a chamber that preserved its structure until the end of the 17th century, and a the secondly settled door-case with fretwork in the brick-vaulted cellar comes as well from this century.

The manor is located on the main road, on the south side of Sântionlunca, a village crossed by the Râul Negru River.

Until the 1990’s the mansion was the property of the Forró family, but then the Dutch Sieste van der Laan purchased it from them. The new owner assigned Tüdős S. Kinga to research the history of the building and planned to recondition it.

On the main square of Blaj stands the former Bagdi Castle, which since 1738 (with a small interruption in the 20th century) functions as the Greek Catholic Archbishop's Palace. The castle was built in 1534-1535 by György Bagdi, who designed a T-shaped residential tower with three floors. The entrance was reinforced with a fire-line.

The house sorrounded by a stone fence is situated right in the center of the village together with another residential building which had been attached to it. The building is very unique due to the special plaster decoration. 

The castle was built in 1833 by the most important member of the Balási family: József Balási III (1778-1855), judge of the Court of Appeal. The owner’s family was highly respected in the local community, his ancestors for many generations were magistrates of Kászonszék.

The freestanding, single-storey building has an L-shaped ground plan. The centre of the main facade contains a portico with gable roof, supported by two square columns and four columns with plinth and capital. Its trapezoidal tympanum is defined by four smaller rectangular airshafts.

The castle of the Bálintitt family was built in the 18th century in late Baroque style. In the 19th century the building was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style and undergone many changes later on as well.

Although the Bánffy family had estates for years in Sâncrai, the castle’s construction began in the last decade of the 19th century. The designer was a renowned architect from Cluj: Lajos Pákei,  who worked for br. Bánffy Jenő (1845-1903).

The predecessor of the castle must have been built in the 1700’s, but that was completely transformed by br. Bánffy (VI.) Ferenc in 1812. The castle undergone another renovation in 1937, ordered by Bánffy (II.) Dániel and his second wife Zichy Mária Huberta.